Comment by kasabali
9 hours ago
XP has had shadow copies. File history tab in explorer was first available in Server 2003, but AFAIK there was a hack to enable it in XP, too.
9 hours ago
XP has had shadow copies. File history tab in explorer was first available in Server 2003, but AFAIK there was a hack to enable it in XP, too.
All hail the mysterious system slowdowns caused by volume shadow copy.
Yeah, especially when shutting down. I think it went bananas if a second shadow copy was triggered while the first was still going
Still, it is an underappreciated technology even today, the ability to get a consistent/ incremental point in time backup
It's not like they got rid of shadow copy entirely so I don't know why they got rid of the file restoration UI
I'll be sad when they finally kill off wbadmin, I script that for nightly imaging to an external drive. I get multiple snapshots to restore to, I can mount the backups (vhdx) as a disk for quick-and-dirty access, and it is technically possible to do point in time file restore but in typical Microsoft fashion it's artificially limited, I've had to fire up an evaluation copy of Windows Server in a VM to do it. Argh
I always turned it off. I've literally never experienced a moment of "wow, I wish I had a shadow copy in place so I could help solve this problem."
Conversely, there were plenty of times when volume shadow copy running was the problem.
Talking about my use of home PCs, of course.